Suspended Attorney’s Sister, Gagash’s Friend Granted R60,000 Bail in R11m Estate Fraud Case

Polokwane Magistrate Mpho Radebe has granted Rirhandzu Tibana and businessman Jabulani Maluleke R60,000 bail each in the case involving alleged fraud, theft and money laundering linked to deceased estates worth millions of rand.

Tibana, 30, the younger sister of suspended attorney Charlotte Tibana, and Maluleke, 43, a director of Risima Jeje Trading Enterprise, appeared before the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court on Thursday for judgment on their bail applications.

The State did not oppose bail, despite alleging that theREAD MORE

A trial to test delivery robots has begun in the country

Russia plans to put at least 12,000 delivery robots into operation over the next three years to assess their suitability for use. An experimental legal framework for the use of delivery robots has been introduced by a decree drafted by the Russian Ministry of Economic Development. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed the decree, according to the ministry’s website.

In the context of the pilotREAD MORE

The ongoing parliamentary spectacle surrounding suspended National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola brings into sharp, unforgiving focus the fundamental design flaw at the heart of South Africa’s criminal justice administration.

The ANC has proposed that Parliament’s ad hoc committee make an adverse finding against Masemola. Their grievance? That he failed to “resist” an allegedly unlawful directive issued by suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu regarding Crime Intelligence positions and the PKTT.

In doing so, Parliament is attempting toREAD MORE

The politician linked the country’s prospects to rapid economic and technological development

India could become the world’s largest economy by 2047. This was stated by the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Nara Chandrababu Naidu, whilst speaking at the PAN-IIT technology summit in Vijayawada, reports ANI, a partner of TV BRICS.

According to Naidu, India is maintaining a steady pace of economic growth and is gradually strengthening its position in the global economy. He noted that itREAD MORE

Her Majesty Queen Masalanabo Modjadji VII, the Rain Queen of the Balobedu Nation in Limpopo, has taken on a new leadership responsibility after being appointed Deputy Chairperson of the Forum of South Africa’s Majesties.

The appointment places the Queen in a senior position within a national forum representing traditional leadership and comes at a time when traditional institutions are being called on to play a greater role in addressing some of the country’s most pressing social and communityREAD MORE

A 31-year-old sangoma who lured his client to a secluded bush under the guise of performing a cleansing ritual before murdering and beheading him has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Atamelang Regional Court in North West.

William Thibedi was convicted of premeditated murder after the court found that he had deliberately used the purported traditional ritual to isolate the deceased before killing him.

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) welcomed the sentence onREAD MORE

The University of Limpopo has confirmed the identity of the 22-year-old student whose body was discovered near the university’s campus fence last week.

The deceased has been identified as Petra Mathaba Tsebe, a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) student registered with the university’s Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine.

Tsebe, ULAMS chairperson, who was in her fourth year of medical studies, died on 4READ MORE

South African police have uncovered suspected multi-million-rand drug manufacturing laboratories in Gauteng and North West within two days, arresting nine people and seizing drugs, manufacturing equipment and four firearms in separate intelligence-driven operations.

The latest discovery was made at a farm in Krugersdorp, Gauteng, where Crime Intelligence at the South African Police Service (SAPS) national head office and the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, commonly known as the Hawks, uncovered what police described as aREAD MORE

The country is also creating the right conditions for the development of start-ups and the implementation of its own digital solutions

Ethiopia is expanding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and developing applied science. This was announced by the Minister for Innovation and Technology, Belete Molla, at a national conference marking the 50th anniversary of the development of science, research and digitalisation in the country, according to Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation, a partner of TV BRICS.

AccordingREAD MORE

Concerns over South Africa’s border security have intensified after reports that ‘bandits’ deported by the United States to neighbouring Eswatini may have travelled through South Africa, although there is no independent confirmation that any of the deportees entered the country illegally.

The allegations have gained traction on social media following the repatriation of three third-country nationals who had been sent to Eswatini under an arrangement with the administration ofREAD MORE